Book description
The focus of this book is broadband telecommunications: both fixed (DSL, fiber) and wireless (1G-4G). It uniquely covers the broadband telecom field from technological, business and policy angles. The reader learns about the necessary technologies to a certain depth in order to be able to evaluate and analyse competing technologies. The student can then apply the results of the technology analysis to business (revenues and costs, market size, etc) to evaluate how successful a technology may be in the market place. Technology and business analyses lead to policy analysis and how government deal with rolling out of broadband networks; content (such as text, audio and video) delivered over them. Furthermore, how government may ensure a competitive and fair environment is maintained for service provision. The book is unique in its approach as it prepares the student to evaluate products from three different viewpoints of technology-business and policy. The book provides a unified vision for broadband communications, offering the required background as well a description of existing broadband systems, finishing with a business scenario. The book breaks new ground by discussing telecommunication technologies in a business and policy context.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
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2 Technology, Business and Policy
- Historical Note: Telegraphy
- The Technology–Business–Policy Analysis Framework
- Technology
- Transmission Rate
- Coverage Area
- Number of Simultaneous Connections
- Power Consumption
- Quality of Service
- Business Issues
- Value Analysis
- Value Proposition
- Value Configuration
- Pricing
- Cash Flow Analysis
- Cost–Benefit Analysis
- Externality
- Network Effects and Platform-mediated Networks
- Policy Issues
- Broadband Telecommunications Public Policy Making
- Policy Instruments
- Policy Dynamics for Broadband Infrastructure
- Technology Analysis
- Business Analysis
- Policy Analysis
- Private Enterprise Policy Analysis
- Review Questions
- References
-
3 Voice Communications
- Historical Note
- Sound and Electrical Signals
- Switching
- Frequency and Bandwidth
- Inter-exchange Telecommunications
- Modulation
- Why is Modulation Needed?
- Multiplexing
- Teletraffic Engineering
- Telephone Operator Business
- Capital Expenditure
- Operational Expenditure
- Revenues
- Policy
- Global Standardisation
- Private Branch Exchange and Leased Line Business
- Virtual Network Operators
- Review Questions
- References
- 4 Information Theory
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5 From Analogue to Digital
- Historical Note
- Analogue Signals
- Nyquist Theorem
- Why Digital?
- Bit Error Rate
- A to D Business Advantages
- Data Source Coding
- Source Coding
- Voice Source Coding
- Pulse Code Modulation
- Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
- Synthesis Coding
- Comparison of Voice Coding Techniques
- Audio Coding
- CD Standard
- Free Lossless Audio Codec
- MP3 Standard
- Image Coding
- Lossless Image Coding
- Lossy Image Coding
- Video Coding
- Review Questions
- References
-
6 Error Control Coding
- Historical Note
- Codeword Sets
- Modulo-2 Operation
- Codeword Distance
- Common Error Control Codes
- Cyclic Redundancy Check Codes
- Bit Error Rate and Block Error Rate
- Error Correction Coding
- Hamming Codes
- Shannon Limit
- Convolutional Coding
- Viterbi Decoder
- Turbo Codes
- Low Density Parity Check Codes
- Rate Matching (Repetition and Puncturing)
- Data Flow Order
- Review Questions
- References
- 7 Digital Modulation
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8 Packetised Data Communications
- Historical Note
- Data Communications
- Circuit Switching and Packet Switching
- Data Packet
- Protocols
- Open Systems Interconnection Model
- Internet Protocol
- Application Layer Protocols
- Transport Layer Protocols
- Internet Layer Protocols
- Link (Network Access) Layer Protocols
- Telecommunications Ecosystem and the Internet Protocol
- Switching and Routing
- Packet Switching Performance Metrics
- Review Questions
- References
-
9 Fixed Broadband Communications Systems
- Historical Note
- Twisted Pair Copper Wires
- Twisted Pair Copper Wire Characteristics
- Digital Subscriber Line
- Digital Subscriber Line System Architecture
- Discrete Multi-tone
- CrossTalk
- Digital Subscriber Line Capacity Calculations
- Vectored DSL
- ADSL/VDSL Standards Enhancements
- ADSL2
- ADSL2+
- ADSL2++
- VDSL
- VDSL2
- Latest Transmission Rates
- Coaxial Cable Systems
- Optical Fibre Systems
- Fibre-to-the-x
- Review Questions
- References
-
10 Terrestrial Broadband Wireless Telecommunications
- Historical Note
- A Wireless Telecommunications System
- Mobile Terrestrial Telecommunications Systems
- Duplex Modes
- Frequency Bands
- Terrestrial Channel Characteristics
- Nodes in a Mobile Telecommunications System
- Resource Allocation
- Frequency Division Multiple Access
- Time Division Multiple Access
- Code Division Multiple Access
- Third Generation: Digital Mobile Communications Systems
- Wideband CDMA
- W-CDMA Release 5 – Introduction of HSDPA
- W-CDMA Release 6 – Introduction of HSUPA
- Packet-switched Telecommunications in Mobile Networks
- Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
- Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
- Fourth Generation: LTE and LTE Advanced
- Frequency Reuse for LTE Systems
- LTE Advanced
- Convergence in Mobile Communications Standards
- Backwards Compatibility
- Review Questions
- References
-
11 Satellite Communications
- Historical Note
- A Relay Station in the Sky
- Satellite Telecommunications System Structure
- Operating Frequencies
- Satellite Communications Antennas
- Transponder
- Path Loss in Space
- Broadband Satellite Telecommunications Systems
- GEO Satellite Systems
- Very Small Aperture Terminals
- Very Small Aperture Terminal Multiple Access Methods
- Frequency Division Multiple Access
- Time Division Multiple Access
- Frequency Reuse
- Mobile Communications Satellite Systems
- Low Earth Orbit Satellites
- Business Ecosystems
- Positioning Satellites
- Review Questions
- References
- 12 Personal WirelessCommunications Systems
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13 Network Topologies, Design and Convergence
- Historical Note
- Cellular Topologies
- Cell Structure
- Macrocell
- Smaller Cell Configurations
- Picocell
- Repeaters
- Distributed Antenna Systems
- Network Planning
- Frequency Reuse
- Wireless Local Area Network Cellular Structure
- Wireless Local Area Network Off-loading
- Hierarchical and Overlay Cell Design
- Handover
- Network Backhaul
- Next Generation Networks
- Infrastructure Convergence
- Fixed Mobile Convergence
- Self-organising Networks
- Review Questions
- References
- 14 Content Delivery and Net Neutrality
- Acknowledgements
- Case Study Index
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Broadband Telecommunications Technologies and Management
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2016
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118995624
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